Language teaching in the digital age: Trends, tools and communities
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Language teaching in the digital age: Trends, tools and communities
- 1. Language teaching in the digital age. T.MacKinnon Senior tutor, Language Centre
- 2. Global trends in language learning. There is a case for a reconceptualised field that is more learner-centered, more collaborative and more technologically driven. The trends in language learning are moving us forward in such a way as to empower our students to communicate with others across the globe in real time.
- 3. Challenges and opportunities: • Language use • Role of the teacher • Digital skills • Availability of resources • New modes of communication • Teacher as learner
- 4. What beliefs do we hold about how learners learn? Macaro, 2003 T.MacKinnon, April 2010
- 5. Where are you? transmission interpretation At the interpretation end, the tutor is concerned to train the learner to become autonomous in language acquisition, more in tune with a constructivist view. At the transmission end of this continuum tutors would have positivist views that learning is achieved through the transmission of objective reality. They would see mastery and internalisation of language structure and form to be the learner’s goal. T.MacKinnon, April 2010 Wright, 1987
- 6. content • British Council • TES connect • Authentik Interactive Internet culture: Capture Share Remix Manage your online identity
- 7. curation Making the resources more manageable: • Bookmarking sites • Pearltrees • Scoop.it • Netvibes
- 8. creation Many web 2.0 tools for mixed media creations. Many evangelists. • Quia.com (games/surveys) • Popcorn maker example • Student e-portfolios • Publish Important questions: • Where? Who? Control? Sharing?
- 9. communication • Between educators: • Between students: #edchat #ukedchat #globalclassroom
- 10. WarwickLanguage on twitter and youtube Second Life: Teresamac About.me Personal website
- 13. Learning
- 15. The Language Centre’s talking mahoodle The basic concept of the Web: “. . . that it is an information space through which people can communicate. . . communicate by sharing their knowledge in a pool. . . The idea was that everybody would be putting their ideas in, as well as taking them out.” Tim Berniers-Lee (considered by many as the father of the www) 28/09/2010 T.Mackinnon
- 16. Community of practice The domain: A community of practice is not merely a club of friends or a network of connections between people. It has an identity defined by a shared domain of interest. Membership therefore implies a commitment to the domain, and therefore a shared competence that distinguishes members from other people. The community: In pursuing their interest in their domain, members engage in joint activities and discussions, help each other, and share information. They build relationships that enable them to learn from each other. The practice: Members of a community of practice are practitioners. They develop a shared repertoire of resources: experiences, stories, tools, ways of addressing recurring problems—in short a shared practice. This takes time and sustained interaction. Etienne Wenger: http://www.ewenger.com/theory/
Editor's Notes
- The horizontal axis represents the polarisation between theories of language input. Implicit input arises from natural exposure and sub-conscious processing, explicit from teaching and conscious processing. The vertical axis represents the concept of how language input is processed. Nativist implies that language learning is an innate skill, interactionist that language is a specialised form of knowledge that is acquired through interaction with the environment. He adds this observation: “Of course polarizations are never absolute and theories as well as individuals place themselves on various stages along the continuum of these axes.” (p22)
- Contrast these 2 images – gadget man : teachers who use tech may be perceived as “techies” , others may prefer to avoid!Personally I prefer to see the e INSIDE the learning – embedded in what we do, just a tool (or ever changing tool set) which helps us find the best way to extend what we do beyond the classroom.